All in one night-M83,29,17,16 Great night

[batema]

Hi,

Had the new EQ6 Pro mount with our Skywatcher ED80 guided with Petzval 66. Mount and PHD Guiding worked a treat. Six hours without PHD not going DONG once.

This was our best night so far and our first attempt at M17 and M16 so thought I would post our efforts for advice. All shots were 5 Minutes duration on ISO 800 through unmodified Canon 400D.

M83 4 Lights/4 Darks, M20 10 Lights/5 Darks, M17 10 Lights/3 Darks and M16 5 Lights/3 Darks. No flats as I am still trying to work that out.

Any feedback welcome.

Mark

[batema]

I don't know why M83 did not come up??

[batema]

Here it is.

[Dennis]

Nice work!

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

A good selection of favourites there, nice work!

[Alchemy]

i like m17 best, but m83 came a close second.

for flats, just shoot in your normal imaging mode but put a quality white t shirt over the end of the scope once the sun has left the sky while it is still light, so your image is a nice grey .....just plug it into your stacking program shoot at least 1/2 doz.

[AlexN]

Clive, I was going to say the same thing, M17 came out the best but M83 is also very nicely colored and very detailed...

Two thumbs up to a great set of images Mark...
Well done.

[beren]

:thumbsup: Congrats on the new mount looks like the guiding was working a treat, very nice images......just wondering do you have to match the number of darks to your lights :shrug:

[batema]

Beren, I honestly do not know? I do a minimum of three so Deep Sky Stacker can stack them as Median. I also have only really had long term guiding success compared to the HEQ5 where we would get a couple of shots then guiding problems.

Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm off to Toowoomba for a three day asronomy workshop at the uni so I can't wait. Hopefully dark clear sky.

I'm also excited as I have just paid for my first new scope as the photos are using our schools scope that happens to live between two teachers place. I get my new WO 110 Flt in 3 weeks Yahoo.

Mark

Mark.

[AlexN]

geez... everyones getting a FLT110 at the moment... are they on special somewhere I dont know about or what? :D

[batema]

Alex, I got mine from Astronomyalive for $2700. It was on par with Andrews but I got a couple of hundres of the Mengrez 70mm guide scope I also bought. very understanding wife just.

[Jen]

beautiful pics cheers :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[AlexN]

Nice price... I only just bought the Megrez 90.... I think I'll stick with it for a while (at least until after first light.)

I can one up you there... I have no missus to report to.. I just spent a touch over 6k in the past 2 weeks on astro-toys :D

[Craig.a.c]

Great pics. I love the one of M83, although I didn't think it was in the skie at the moment (I can't seem to find).
M17 looks nice also, is it called the "star cloud" aswell?

[winensky]

Busy night! Great shots. Love the colour on M83.

[Matty P]

Excellent images Mark, very well done. :)

M17 and M83 have both come out great. Lovely round stars and detail.

:thumbsup:

[spearo]

Nice work,
I like M20 and M16 the best.

Perhaps consider a very very slight push of saturation on M20?
just a thought
looks great as is of course, captured the nebulosity beautifully
cheers
frank

[batema]

Thankyou all for the feedback. I just got back from a three day astronomy inservice which was fantastic held at usq with guest speakers and imaging.

Mark